[locknitpicker]

> It's beyond baffling that so many programmers who are nominally JS developers thumb their noses at writing standards-compliant code and instead insist on coding directly against Node's proprietary APIs.

You're talking about node.js projects running on node.js, and you're complaining that it consumes node.js APIs. Strange.

[cxr]

There is no argument or insight in your comment. It's physically possible to type in code that makes direct use of non-standard APIs that work in NodeJS but not the browser. Pointing out that this is so and that there are people who do it is not the same as engaging with the subject of whether they ought not to—which was the point of the remarks you responded to. Previously:

> You're offering a retort to someone who is communicating their position that you ought not do something, where the retort consists of nothing more than explaining that people are doing it. Yes, clearly. But what the person you're responding to is arguing is that you ought not do it.¶ Consider[…]:

> Person A: Here's little advice: don't take up smoking. Smoking is bad for you.

> Person B: Yet people smoke

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